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LINE THE STORY
ABSTRACT “ To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another” Tim Ingold
Regardless a complex tissue of different aspects which create and influence urban environment, universal human values remain the same across both - physical borders and cultural boundaries. Nowadays, post-modern cities are becoming more and more human-oriented. The shift in academic notions towards importance of citizens role in city-making process becomes more obvious. Who has the power to actually space the city? Places obtain their meaning through inhabitants spatial experience enveloped with emotional connotation and personal impressions. The role of certain urban forms can be both diminished and exaggerated by means of implication which users give to it. Insofar as it is useful to speak of the formal structure of everyday practices, that structure has two modes, physical and mental, and two aspects, spatial and temporal. We propose a new alternative map of the city, created by personal emotional and physical aspects of exploring the physical environment. We tend to talk about design as one of the tools for social inclusiveness and equality.However, designing for everyone, we often equate all differences and diversity of individuals to the term society or public, which reduces the sense of diversity by definition. This project can be considered as an attempt to overlay multiply individual stories embedded in the same city structure, in other words, to string personal movements and activities into necklace of urban public space in order to reveal unseen patterns. How do people choose to move around the city? We can trace specific data about citizens mobility and commuting patterns from city statistics. However, are they driven only by the rigid city structure and transport infrastructure? What does influence their choices? One day, our decisions are caused by weather conditions, another day they depend on our mood. Our firstly conscious choices turn into constant preferences and evolve in habits. We pay less and less attention to our daily activities and they gradually become routines. Michel de Certeau in his famous “The Practice of Everyday Life” points out that scholars attention is rather driven by the interest to traditions, language, symbols, art that make up a culture, while everyday practices - ways in which people reappropriate formal forms in everyday situations - are rather neglected.We tend to underestimate the value of daily routines taken them for granted and way too trivial for scholars attention. Urban fabric of our cities is woven from memories and daily novels of citizens everyday life.The stories of the city are created by their users. They are imbedded in the structure and very essence of each city. The project visualizes the description of spatiality in citizens novels and its relation to the urban environment. These stories are translated into new kinds of poetic maps that have their origin in the complex tissue of the underlying stories with the physical structure of the city. Moreover, visualization lets us compare the cities, manifesting their distinguishing and most striking qualities of every city with underlying cultural and historical connotations.It lets us compare cities and Hence, the new alternative image of users-experienced city is created. It is also crucial to realise the value of data representation. Many profound researches become locked in the academic environment due to the absence of efficient way of communication the ideas to a wider audience. We believe that the alternative way of visualization can be beneficial for both - city dwellers and urban researchers. On the one hand, personal movements and patterns can unveil invisible layers of the experienced city and be beneficial for the creation of desirable cities tomorrow.These traces can provide city makers with an alternative vision of the city, shedding light on patterns which are often neglected. On the other hand, we encourage city dwellers to be more conscious about the way they interact with environment and be aware of their role as the city-makers. All maps were drawn from memory, which unveils most memorable and important aspects of urban experience.
city
citizens
actual city map infrustructure
mental maps city tales
environmental conditions urban morphology topography
personal perception cultural background narrative of space
city journeys
city
місто πόλη
verbal maps
walking
ATHENS
DAILY ROUTINES The value of everyday practices is often underestimated and too trivial for academic attention. In our project we propose an alternative view on openly visible and taken-for-granted daily activities and introduce an idea of putting a personal urban experience in the centre of city studies. Admitting the strong connection between psychology and environment, we make the hypothesis that by lining daily patterns we can fortify our awareness of the important interrelation between the city fabric and daily human engagement.
KYIV
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A WALKING LINE IN
ATHENS
A PERSONAL STORY
“When the weather allows it we take our chairs and tables and place them across the street to the Navarinou square”
“the moment I step out of the house everything happens
automatically”
graffiti on the wall SQUARE
“Kallidromiou street is a comforting visual escape”
“The coffee place
”A city on fire, a flower that blossoms”
HOME
“When it is raining I always choose Ippokratous because of the covered
arcades that protect me
“Althought there is a staircase that way, I still prefer it when I want to walk undistracted”
NATIONAL DANCE ACADEMY of Yiannis is like our backyard. We go there, wearing our ballet uniform, for a break and have the funniest and longest discussions”
A WALKING LINE IN A PERSONAL STORY
KYIV
There is a long transition way in between metro lines because of
number of people
Usually,
in peak hours.
I run over this distance in 3 min passing around 50 people.
M
There is an underground passage but it doesn't restrict my pace of walking.
M
OFFICE M
M M
The main criteria for choosing the way is
efficiency and distance.
Very pragmatic one.
GYM
I would invent a teleport to get directly from my office to the gym.
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